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The President and Reality
FHERE was little sense of reality or timeliness in that part of President Truman's State of the Utlion message which was devoted to the world situation and ‘the general rearmament effort. : If “this year, 1952, is a crucial year in the defense effort of the whole free world,” as Mr. Truman said, and as well it may be, this i8 a time to drop the platitude and deal with the hard, cold facts. : This year just past was not “a year of great achievement,” It was a year of moderate accomplishments and many grave disappointments.
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The President claims the free nations in Europe have #
created a “real fighting forcé.” This force exists largely on paper. The two divisions the United States sent to Europe were the most substantial increase made in that army during the past year. In Korea, United Nations forces have not “turned back the Chinese Communist i invasion.” but only checked it. And to say that this has been done ° ‘without widening the area of conflict” overlooks a pertinent point. While the Reds have been allowed a privileged sanctuary in Manchuria, they have been widening the area of conflict by extending substantial aid to guerrillas in Indo-China, Burma and Malaya. According to Mr. Truman, the new Communist empire in Asia is a daily threat to millions who want to be free to follow {heir own way of life. * That being true, why don’t we give them the assistance they need to defend themselves, instead of attempting to fight this battle for them, as we have had to do in Korea? There wasn't a word in the President’s message about Formosa, where the Chinese Nationalists have the largest anti-Communist army in Asia. Not a word about the anti-Communist guerrillas fighting on the Chinese mainland.
” ” o n o 2 GIVEN adequate equipment, these forces might be able to keep the Communists so busy they wouldn't be able to spread mischief beyond their own borders. We are in a war, and wars aren't won by holding actions. Mr. Truman boasts that we are extending onr technical and financial assistance to 33 countries under the Point Four Program. Is this wise, when many of these countries are neutral in the present struggle? How far can we spread ourselves without neglecting some of the people who will fight, and without over-taxing our own resources”? “Allies are essential to us.” Yes, if we can get dependable ones. : Britain is a dependable ally. Turkey is doing its part. The Greeks will fight. Yugoslavia is on our side because
‘Tito hasn't any other place to go. Spain has possibilities.
Who else is there in Europe we can depend on? West Germany is unarmed, and undecided whether-it wants to rearm. France can't even maintain a stable government, to say nothing of making a substantial contribution to a European army. Italy is anybody's guess. The U. 8. has nothing but liabilities in the Middle East. We are overextended in the Far East, and doing little to strengthen our position there. How much longer are we going to be spoonfed the soothing syrup that things are looking up? Our best insurance is our own strength. Fortunately some progress is being made toward mobilizing that strength—
Here at Home
AS MR. TRUMAN suggests, the key to our strength is our capacity to produce. That capacity is the No. 1 stopper for Russian aggression—if we don't squander it. Our capacity, great as it is, is not unlimited. And it can be spread so thin as to be ineffective, and no longer an obstacle to Communist ambition—which is exactly what the Reds hope will happen. And what they are trying to engineer. The President, however, seems to think we can rearm most of the world, carry on a global do-good program, engage in vast public construction at home and go flashing right ahead with social improvement projects as in peacetime. The sweeping scope of Mr. Truman's program doesn't jibe with what he said at the beginning of his speech about the “necessity for putting first things i n n ” 2 “EVERY action you take hére in Congress,” he said, “and every action I take as President, must be measured against the test of whether it helps to meet that (Comm). nist) danger.” Then he proceeded to make a ‘first thing” out of almost everyt ing — farm subsidies, social security benefits, civil rights, the Point Four Program, health insurance, housing, more schools and highways, aid to education, and so on. Take one basic item-—steel, Fven with the 120- -million. ton annual production which Mr, Truman says we will have next year, we'll not have enough steel for everything.
Fin Tribute to Dr. Bahr
HEN Dr. Max Bahr retires as head of Central State Hospital next Mar. 4 he will have served 54 years inn that post.
Indianapolis doctors planned-a testimonial dinner for him on that date, and from the way the suggestion caught on it promised to be a big and festive one Dr. Bahr himself stopped that plan, with characteristic modesty. He didn't want such a lot of fuss and ceremony about himself, he said. 80, in respect of his wish; it was cancelled. - Instead, his friends are ‘going to gather this evening in the chapel at Central State Hospital, to try to convey to him a little of the esteem in which they hold him. It will be an informal party, and anyone who wishes to go may attend. Among those who do, of course, will ‘be a fine pheépresentation of the city’s medical profession, and many of those who planried to sponsor the testimonial diner, It won't, perhaps, be as elaborate as the affair they. ‘originally had in mind. But it will be a truly fitting tribute
- to. a man‘who has“given outstanding service to his state and to his profession for more than half a century—made specially appropriate by its being given right i in the instituor ho bis comic cig sana, po
POLITICS .
WASHINGTON, Jan, 10-It's hard to attack a war hero. Thus, opponents of Gen. Dwight. Eisenhower will have ‘to tread gingerly in their campaign.against him for the Republi-
can presidential nomination. Ww “ oo BUT AT least fhree main points of attack are shaping up already: ONE~—It will be contended. that inescapably
he is tied into the Democratic administration policy of recent years and that, especially in the foreign field, some of the blame for major mistakes accrues to him, TWO-—That his present views on many ma‘*jor issues, not known. It«ls true he made many speeches as president of Columbia University, but the General's, opponents say these are "a couple years old and that there are numeérous specific 1ssues on which he apparently has expressed no publie views,
THREE-—It will be argued that the Ameri-
« can tradition is.-against a military man in the
EUROPE ... . By Ludwell Denny * -
Will Events Bring Unity?
! WASHINGTON, Jan. 10—Events in Europe and Asia are doing more to force the United States and Britain together than Churchillian charm and Truman hogpitality in the Big Two conference here, The following current developments abroad give new urgency to the goal of closer AmericaniBritish eo-operation, and focus problems which the Truman-Churchill #ids will discuss here during the Prime Minister's trip to New York and Ottawa: ’ ONE TWO-
~Fall of the French government, Belgium's rejection of the North At-
” lantie Treaty Organization Committee .recom-
mendation for increased defense efforts. “THREE—Russia’s moves to sabotage United Nations’ anti- aggression machinery, and to recapture veto control of the Korean truce negotliations, FOUR—Red China's threat to repeat in French Indo-China its Korean aggression. FIVE Disintegration of the Allied position in the Mideast, especially in Irah and Egypt; and ‘Arab bloe flirtation with Moscow. SIX-—Latest London figures showing nearly a billion dollar loss in gold and dollar reserves of the sterling area in 1951.
Developing for Months
ALL OF THESE have been developing a period of months. But by reaching a climax at the same time and this week, they have revealed with startling clarity the Allies’ danger and American-British responsibilities. The main factor in all of these developments is the declining strength of Britain or France, or hoth,” as world powers. Russia has moved, and is still moving, into the vacuum left by those recessions. In Europe, the Middle East and the Far East, the common problem is to build back order and strength—not in old forms of imperialism in the East or balance-of-power in the West, but of a more enlightened collective security" and prosperity. These have been Allied objectives in the United Nations, NATO, the Pacific Pacts, the Marshall Plan, Point Four, and related efforts, In all of these the only substantial strength, for the time being, has been that of the United States and any revival it could aid in Britain and France. Both Washington and London in different ways have gambled much on the re birth of France as a great power. Now the crisis in Eurepe and in NATO, in the Arab areas, and in the Far East, finds France without a government. This is not the first time of course. But the cumulative effect of French political instability, military inadequacy, and economic inefficiency on all Allied planning is becoming very serious.
A Tested Friend
80 MUCH 80, indeed, that both the United States and Britain in the immediate future will be forced to depend more on each other than in the recent past. Washington policy has been more pro-French than pro- -British, and Winston Churchill is a tested friend of France. Neither America nor Britain is tempted to ignore the in continental Ally. a the inescapable fact is that—with the continuing paralysis of France—the President and Prime Minister must achieve far more unity and action on all fronts, or the grand alliance may fold under increasing Soviet pres-
sure.
Views on the News
IF THIS wasn’t an election year, Gen. Eisenhower’s politics would still be a military secret.
ATTY. GEN. McGRATH gs has ordered nationwide grand (§ jury investigations since the § administration found out crime doesn't pay.
WITH TAXES and prices what they are, both halves must be wondering ‘how the other half lives.”
THE Nattonal Conference for strengthening Congress wants the lawmaxzers to save time. Everyone else. wants them to save money.
FRANCE didn’t disappoint the United Nations delegates meeting in Paris. The cabinet fell before the gavel.
SIDE GLANCES
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White House, Gen. Eisenhower's own comments on this subject, when he shook off attempts to get him into the 1948 presidential race, will be cited. The odds are that Sen. Robert ‘A. Taft of Earl Wanren of California and Harold Stassen of Minnesota, the three active candidates for the GOP nomination, will use none. of these arguments themselves, But inevitably they will be used. : Politicians disagree on whether Gen. Ike will have to say anything more in coming. months to clarify his stand on major public issues. Those who say he won't argue that the General's stand in broad terms already is well known. His supporters gay it's plain that he will say nothing so long as he wears his battle jacket. But a pro-Eisenhower Midwestern state governor said today: ¢ 45 ; “THE General will not be acceptable on personality alone. I think that at some point he is going to have to speak out more clearly on the
The Last Man Club
SALESMAN
* * . Will Winnie Bi WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 — Most important item on British Prime Minister Winston ChurehHI's American program will probably be his visit with Bernard Baruch in New York. This is in the- nature of a ‘courtes sy. Mr. Baruch visited Mr. Churchill in England last summer. He lost money betting on Mr. Churehill’s horses, too. It isn't that any worldshaking decisions are going to be reached when the two elder statesmen get together again. No deep, dark, Machiavellian, master-mind conspiracy- is afoot. The big issue at stake is whether Mr. Baruch will be able to persuade Mr. Churchill to use a hearing aid. For the sad truth is that the Prime Minister is having a little difficulty with his hearing. And he won't give in to these new - fangled contrivances that might be of some help. In fact, the story around the London press corps is that Mr. Churchill sometimes uses his hearing handicap to good advantage. In House of Commons debate, where there is always con-
Mr. Churchill
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‘ considerable hub-bub and hear-hear, the Prime
Minister has been suspected of letting on that he didn't catch certain questions from. the members that he didn’t whnt to answer: Later
.on, he has proved that he heard these dirty
cracks perfectly well, and he has answered them at his own good time in perfect Churchillian style.
Of course, if Mr. Churegill should feign not
‘to hear anything important that President Tru-
man or Canadian Prime Minister Louis St. aii might have to say to him, it wouldn't
H-M-M-M
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10-— Looks like we're going to phase out some of our defense program. - Then we'll finalize
it. H-m-m-m-m-m. I tell you there's something contagious about gobbledegook. Normal gents and solid citizens like Charles E. Wilson and Manly Fleischmann come to Washington to run the nation's.’ production system and for a while they talk like the rest of us. Gradually federalese, the language spoken exclusively in our local marble halls,. rubs off on ‘em. And. " pretty soon they're spouting words that don’t even appear in an unabridged dictionary. Sad. Very sad. So there were the Messrs. Wilson and Fleischmann being questioned. by the Joint Senate and House Defense Committee on how ‘come so ‘many people were so sore ‘about the way their Washing- ° ton ‘masters were treating em.” ; The trouble, evel as it was during World War II, was shortages of practically every-
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main issues. I believe the people wish to know more about his political “philosophy. I don't think he needs to spell out everythiig in.detail, but he must make clearer than in the past his ideas about fhe, major. problems eT must faee in these times. - > $ 0 ub “OUT HERE, for. example, it's assumed generally: that Gen, Eisenhower is a strong internationalist. But I think it should be made clear that he's hot a ‘giveaway’ internationalist.” The main problem of the pro-Eisenhower movement today was to try to maintain some of the momentum gained by the General's statement Monday that, although he would not seek the nomination he would accept it. The offices of Sens. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (R. Mass.) and James H. Duff (R..Pa.) reported they were swamped with messages from over the country by people eager to campaign for the General. Sen. Taft's long early lead has been built on a solid organizational base in
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By Peter Edson
a Hearing Aid?
be so good. And that’s why this matter of the hearing aid becomes important. Bernard Baruch has been the world's best unpaid salesman and demonstrator for hearing aids. When the 91-year-old ex-mayor of Tokyo, Yukio Ozaki, came to the U. 8. in 1950, Mr. Baruch gave him a hearing aid. When Mr. Baruch shoved his listening device in the faces of Congressmen who were quizzing him on Capitol Hill, the newsphotos of that event convinced a lot of people there was no sense in being sensitive over bad hearing. If Mr, Baruch can now convince Mr.
Churchill he ought to use a hearing aid, it will
be a help all around.
Brandy and Cigars IF THE result of this is that every American manufacturer of hearing aids showers down his latest models on the unsuspecting prime minister, it will be too bad. That might convince Mr. Churchill that he shouldn't be seen using any of them. Too much of a free advertiseThe British dre sensitive about such things. Take the matter of soap, for instance. The British Information Service in Washington did a very good job of furnishing. the Washington press with a detailed description of the bedroom, parlor and bath which the Prime Minister will occupy in the British Embassy during his visits here. But when it came to the kind of soap there was ‘in ‘the soap dish, the British Embassy censored that out. Too commercial. They did break down and say, darn it, that it was English soap, There was another detail on which the British Embassy held out. That was on revealing how large was the stock of brandy and cigars laid in for the P. M.'s visit. All they would say was, “It's ample, »
By Frederick C. Othman
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many. states, and the’ Eisenhower people now, face the task of catching up.
Some “big name” announcements of Eisen. ,
hower supporters around the country are ¥ pected in the next few days. : There is a considerable possibility that there will be no head-on collision between Taft and Eisenhower. forces in a presidential primary, Gen. Eisenhower will ‘be in the New Hampshire contest but probably not Sen. Taft; in Wisconsin the likelihood is it will be the other way around, Mr. Taft will fight off an. invasion by Mr, Stassen in the Ohio primary, but consent of the candidates necessary and that would seem to rule -out Gen. Eisenhower if respect of the “favorite son” tradition did not. So far Sen. Taft has indicated no active interest in any other state primary. If a test doés come between the two men, it might be in Oregon. A telephone check, of some political leaders around the country indicated a “wait-for-thes dust-to-settle” attitude on Taft-Eisenhower.
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Hoosier Forum
"I do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your rig + to say it." —Voltaire.
CE ENE EERE EEE EERE REE REERINEENEERY 0 RAL ‘Critics of the Judge’ MR, EDITOR: Recently there appeared in the columns of
SesesgReTaRRETeaRSSRREES, v SEEN sEREsTRRANERS INT
-newspapers published in Indianapolis, articles
and statements citicizing Judge Herbert Spene cer for the manner in which he conducted and decided certain cases, while he was sitting as Judge in one of the Municipal Courts of Marion County. Be these self-appointed critics editors, or citizens in other walks of life, it is comfortin
to know that they are very few in number, no and that thelr ériticiam gow
versed in the law, far afield and not at all in keeping with sound: reasoning and understanding.
Every cade in court is different and facts and circumstances vary and the judge hearing the case is in a position to make decisions that are in keeping with the facts and circumstances, ever mindful of the fact that justice should bé tempered with mercy and a human understands ing of the matters involved.
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THE BENCH and bar of Marion County and the State of Indiana, and the eitizéns of Marion County, are well acquainted with thé reputation and ability of Judge Spencer as a lawyer, his outstanding record as prosecutor 6f Marion County, the 19th Judicial District of the State of Indiana, and as judge of Superior Court, Room No. 2 of Marion County, Indiana.
During the four years that he was prosecutor his record was such as to command the respect of all good citizens who desire to see the law enforced and criminals and law violators prosecuted and convicted, and his outstanding record of convictions of vicious criminals and other law violators, i8 an open book to the public.
Also, during the four years that he was judge of Superior Court, Room 2, of Marion County, Indiana, the rights and interests of all litigants and parties appearing in the court, were given full consideration and issues were settled by decisions in keeping with their full rights, in both law and equity, with fairness, reason and understanding prevailing. * © ‘@ AS TO the cases in the Miinicipal Court on that day, there were none in which a defendant was charged with any vielous law viélation, ia some cases fines and sentences were given and in others, leniency was shown, and without any injury to society.
May fairness, reason and tet na always prevail. —Albert C. Nelson, 4405 E. Washington 8.» »
‘Dear Harry . .
MR. EDITOR: Open letter to Harry Truman: As a life-long party worker unable to agree with the boys here, I am appealing to you for help, and will be over to see you soon. I am related to Tom Jefferson. My great grandfather worked for Tom who came home one day to catch him overhauling the family jewelry box, so on the tip of Tom’s boot, he made a hasty descent through a window. My grandfather was a horse thief, grand. mother a shoplifter; my father was a safecracker, mother a confidence gal . . . but good Democrats all, and I tell you my history simply to show you that I come Hight by aspirations to get something for nothing , .. just as New Deal . philosophy teaches. Now Harry, you must be convinoed that I deserve a real job. I would like to head soma department, or be a chairman of some commite tee—a swivel-chair man, if you follow me . . , with a lot of soft, fast bucks coming in regularly, for another year. You realize, of course, that wa. are done then, all of us, becatise the deep+ freezers, mink-coaters and tax boys have overs played our hand. Be seeing you soon. : —Pat Hogan, Columbus.
‘Quo Vadis?’ y MR. EDITOR: :
Maybe this letter is being written 30 days too soon. Did you notice that thé Hungarians hesitated after we agreed to pay the fines. for our four fliers? They must feel like kicking themselves, As our judges, théy have fined us too, too low. Gangsters like us Have got plenty of dough; the verdict, being “guilty,” the fine could have been tripled at least. Quo Vadis? —E. Adelman, 2951 N. New Jersey St.
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they were trying to divvy up the stuff fair and square. They
were doing fine, too, until Mr."
Fleischmann got around to talking’ about the $6 billion construction - program - of the military. Seemed to him like the soldiers wanted to spend the billions all at once on the doggonedest assortment of build-
. ings this nation ever saw. If
they were to get away with it, he continued, there wouldn't be enough steel left even to finish the new steel mills now a-building. ” n s
“BUT this construction pro-
gram of the military has to be phased out.” : ‘I thought there for a minute that I'd misunderstood him. I
never figured Manly Fleisch-
‘mann of Buffal talk like that. right. He went on to say that . a number of other defense
0, N.Y, would But 1 heard
schemes also would have to be phased out, Pretty soon Mr. Wilson, ex-
_ thing. And especidlly topper, boss of the General ] "brass, aluminum, and Strue- Co., was phasing out 'sorie ‘tural steel. . fue esac 00 I'm _not too vi f Sie. kT sure exa y what they meant, ask you MOBILIZATION Director ‘but I got the idea was Lhe Production Ad- calm down some of the
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and keep hoarding scarce materials until they really needed*them.
Then Mr. Fleischmann went on to say that he was be-
A GREAT MAN
THE greatest man on earth is he.. , . who has an open mind .. . a man who weighs a problem . .. with an outlook that is kind . . . a man who has no prejudice . . . for any race or creed . . . a man who knows that hatred is . , . a very bitter weed . . . 4 man who lives by what is right . . , and helps those who may fall « ++ to get upon their feet again . . , and scale their trouble’s- wall . . . a man who fathers children . . . and who loves his little wife . . . a man who tries his very best . , , to
‘weather storm and strife . ..
he is the man whom I call great + « « and great he'll alwan be... an on this earth hereafter . . . throughout
—By Ben Burroughs.
Butrough's poems in a Dreket aise book, Send 25e¢ for : : igh’'s “Sketches” to - Times,
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© angry, understand; : | opty Snqeatay Just Er : ;
ing forced to cut out the builds -
ing of office buildings altos gether and even to slow up thé erection of defense plants of account of the steel and copper shortage. He added, and I “The figures are not yet finalized.”
He meant here (I think) that
he didn’t have any good cafeus
lations on construction needs,
but he was working on ‘em. As A journéyman reporter, with a big dictionary handy, I'm all for Mt. Wildon ard Mr, Fleischmann dividing up thé stuff that goes inté rifles and
télévision sets as wisely as they
can. This i8 née easy job. Both the gunsmiths and the elécteis cians figure they're getting the short end ol the stick,
SUCH snnriing Patties kept Washington busy during all the last war; iow we're getting more of the same. “Fact is, these proceedings thing like walking into the middle of a movie. TI got the
‘feéling that this was where 1
came in. One thing, though, I wish the production bosses would ration English, I'm nos
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